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Pete Myers, Kennedy Winston headline youth basketball camp in Mobile

Kennedy Winston, Ugonna Onyekwe

Former University of Alabama player Kennedy Winston drives past to the basket during a NBA summer league game in 2006. He will join with Pete Myers to headline a youth basketball camp Friday and Saturday in Mobile. (File photo)

Mobile native Pete Myers is pictured in action during his playing days with the Chicago Bulls. He'll team with Kennedy Winston for a youth basketball camp Friday and Saturday at McGill-Toolen High School's CYO. (File photo)

Friday's camp is slated from 1-5 p.m., with Saturday's session set from 9 a.m. until noon.

The camp is open to boys and girls, ages 6-18 years old. The camp will feature instruction in basketball fundamentals and include "individual attention to all phases of the game,'' according to a press release.

Cost of the two-day camp is $80 per camper.

Myers, a 2013 inductee into the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame, was an assistant coach on the Sacramento Kings' staff last season. The former Williams High School standout played at Faulkner State Community College and later at Arkansas-Little Rock. He was a sixth-round selection by the Chicago Bulls in the 1986 NBA Draft and took Michael Jordan's spot in the Bulls' lineup when Jordan first retired from the game.

Winston is a former Blount High School standout who was selected as Alabama's Mr. Basketball is senior season. He went on to a solid career at Alabama. He left Alabama early to enter the NBA Draft but was not selected. He has gone on to enjoy a good professional career overseas.